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INCORPORATING THE 



LOOMIS INSTITUTE, 



TOWN OF WINDSOR, STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 



TOGETHER WITH THE 



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BY-LA^A^S 



FOR GOVERNMENT OF THE SAME. 



HARTFORD, CONN.: 

PRESS OF WILEY, WATERMAN & EATON. 

1878. 



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INCORPORATING THE 



LOOMIS INSTITUTE, 



TOWN OF WINDSOR, STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 



TOGETHER WITH THE 




BY-L^T\^S 



FOR GOVERNMENT OF THE SAME. 



HARTFORD, CONN.: 

PRESS OF WILEY, WATERMAN & EATON. 

1878. 



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AN ACT 

To incorporate tlie Ijoomis Institute in tlie 
To^wn of T\^indsor. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Remesentatives in 
GcTieral Assembly convened : Section 1. That James C. Loomis, 
Hezekiah B. Loomis, Osbert B. Loomis, H. Sidney Hayden, 
and his wife, formerly Abby S. Loomis, and John Mason 
Loomis, and their successors be and they hereby are constituted corporators. 
a body politic and corporate by the name of The Loomis Insti- 
tute, and by that name shall have perpetual succession hereafter, 
and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, 
defend and be defended in all courts whatever, and may have a 
common seal and change the same at pleasure. They also shall 
have power and authority to take, by purchase, gift, grant. Power to pur- 
devise, or in any other manner and form, any and all property chase property, 
and estate, real, personal and mixed, and wheresoever situated, 
and the same to hold in trust for the sole and exclusive use and 
benefit of said institute: provided^ always^ that the yearly value Proviso. 
of the real estate thus acquired, shall not exceed the sum of 
fifty thousand dollars; and that no purchase, gift, grant, devise, 
or other mode of transfer or conveyance, made to or for the 
use and benefit of said institute, shall be accepted or received 
upon any condition or conditions inconsistent with the pro- 
visions of this act. And they also shall have power and power to seii 
authority to give, grant, bargain, sell, exchange, transfer, con- property, 
vey or otherwise dispose of any or all of the estate and property 
so held by them, as they shall deem for the best interests of the 
institute, except as is herein expressly provided to the contrary. 

Sec. 2. This institute shall be and the same hereby is con- Purpose for 
stituted and established for the free and gratuitous education of ^''^•''^ J^°**i*"*® 
all persons of the age of twelve years and upwards to twenty years ^^ ^®**^^'*'>^^- 
in all the departments of learning which are now taught or here- 
after may be taught in the various grades of schools in this country, 
and also for the purpose of maintaining and supplying all those 
whose condition and circumstances may require it, with all those 
things which may be deemed necessary and proper for their com- 
fort and advancement in useful knowledge, so far as the funds of 
the institute will permit. But no person shall be admitted as a who may be ad- 
student in said institute until he or she shall be adjudged, on fitted as stu- 
examination, capable of reading and spelling the English language '^^°'®' 



correctly, writing a good, legible hand, and resolving questions in 
the four rules of arithmetic, with a knowledge of elementary 
geography and grammar, and shall sustain a good moral char- 
acter. In case a greater number of persons having the requisite 
qualifications shall apply for admission than the institute can 
accommodate, then selection from said applicants shall be made, 
first from those belonging to the Loomis family by name or con- 
sanguinity, next from those belonging to the town of Windsor, 
next from those belonging to the State of Connecticut, and next 
from those deemed most worthy, without regard to state or 
nation, all of which shall be determined by said trustees and 
their successors, or by committees by them appointed, in con- 
formity to the provisions of this act. 
TrusteeB — may Sec. 3. The trustecs abovc named shall have power and 
buy certain prop- authority, with the consent of the owners thereof, to select such 
erty and layoutpQj,^-^^ of the Original homcstcad of Joseph Loomis, taken up 
by him in 1639, and continued in the ownership and possession 
of his descendants from that day to this, situated upon " The 
Island," so called, in Windsor, in the county of Hartford, and 
state of Connecticut, and any other lands immediately contigu- 
ous thereto, not exceeding in quantity fifty acres, as they may 
deem necessary and proper, and they shall cause an accurate 
survey and map of the same to be made and lodged on file in 
the ofl&ce of the land records of said town, for safe keeping, 
there perpetually to remain. They shall also have power and 
authority to lay out, improve, and beautify said grounds, in 
such manner and to such an extent, as they may deem neces- 
To determine sary and proper — to determine the number, form, dimensions, 
number and ^ materials, and style of architecture of the buildings to be 
&c *andina ^*' erected thcrcon, and the location of the same on said premises, 
erect same when and shall causc plaus of the same to be made and lodged on file 
funds equal in said officc, there to be forever kept, and they may proceed to 
$200,000. erect said buildings, or so many thereof as they may deem ex- 

pedient, and provide the same with suitable furniture, books, 
apparatus, and all such other matters and things as they may 
deem necessary and proper for the use of the institute, when- 
ever the funds of the same shall equal the sum of two hundred 
thousand dollars. 
Location not to The locatiou thus selected and determined upon shall there- 
be sold. after become and forever be and remain the site and location of 

said institute, and no person or persons shall thereafter have 
power or authority to take, appropriate, convey or otherwise 
dispose of the same, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, exchange, 
mortgage, or in any other manner or form to any person or 
persons, or for any cause or purpose whatever, but the same 
shall be and forever remain the location of said institute, and 
appropriated and used for the purposes intended by the donors 
and by the provisions of this act. 

If the above named trustees shall neglect or fail to exercise 
or perform any or all of the above granted powers, during their 
continuance in office, then the same are hereby given and granted 
to their successors. 



Sec. 4. The said trustees and their successors shall have Trustees to man- 
power and authority to manage and direct the property, funds "s** property and 
and effects of said institute, all of which shall be exempt from JJ5t"her^oS 
taxation, so long as said institute shall be maintained and used of school. 
for the purposes of education as herein intended and provided ; 
to enlarge the qualifications for admission, to prescribe the 
course of instruction and direct the same therein, to limit the time 
that students may continue therein, to appoint a president, who 
shall be an ex-officio member of the board of trustees during 
his continuance in office, secretary, such professors, tutors, and 
all such other officers and employees as they may deem neces- 
sary to assist in the government, education and care of the 
students belonging to said institute, and to make all ordinances 
and by-laws, and the same to alter and amend at pleasure, xomakcby- 
that they may deem necessary and proper for carrying into full la^s. 
effect the object of said institute, not inconsistent with the pro- 
visions of this act, the laws of this state and of the United 
States. 

No officer, instructor, employee, or student, shall be made no one ineligible 
eligible or ineligible, for or by reason of his or her religious or on account of re- 
political opinions, nor be compelled to acknowledge or sign any "g''"^* <"" p°''*'- 
religious or political creed or test whatever; but no officer, in- 
structor, employee, or student, shall be appointed, or continued 
in the employment, service, or enjoyment of the privileges of 
the institute who does not sustain a good moral character. 

Sec. 5. After the original buildings shall have been com- investment of 
pleted according to the plans of said trustees, and furnished as f"nds. 
herein provided, it shall be the duty of said trustees and their 
successors, to cause all the available funds that may remain, or 
be thereafter received, to be safely invested by bond and mort- 
gage on unincumbered real estate, in this state, of double the 
value of the amount to be secured, or in the most approved 
securities of the state of Connecticut, to be and remain a per- 
petual fund, and the rents, issues and profits thereof thereafter 
only, shall be used and expended in defraying the current ex- 
penses of the institute, in the erection of new buildings and in 
the purchase of books, maps, charts, apparatus, and all other 
matters and things which may be deemed necessary and proper 
best to promote and secure the welfare and prosperity of the 
institute. 

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the 
appropriation of any gift, grant, bequest or devise, to the 
specific object intended by the donor, provided the same is ap- 
proved by the trustees, and is consistent with the provisions of 
this act. 

Sec. 6. Said trustees and their successors shall annually, Trustees to re-' 
in the month of January in each year, make a full and detailed port under oath 
statement, under oath, of all the receipts and disbursements for ^^ *°°'^''' ™®^*" 
or on account of the institute during the year preceding the first ^°°" 
day of said month, and how the funds are mvested, and the 
securities thereon ; of the number of students in said institute, 
and the amount which has been expended in their support ; of 



the number of officers and employees therein, and the amount 
of salaries and compensation paid to each one, and any and all 
other matters that they may deem advisable to communicate to 
the public, and shall immediately thereafter cause the same to 
be printed at length in two of the daily newspapers published 
in the city of Hartford, believed to have the largest circulation, 
for a period of ten days ; and shall also cause said statement to 
be lodged in the office of the record of lands in said Windsor, 
and thereupon it shall be the duty of the proper officer to re- 
cord the same at full length upon said records. 
Trustees may SeC- 7. The Said trustccs and their successors shall have 
confer literary power and authority to grant all such literary honors and testi- 
honors. mouials as usually are or hereafter may be granted in the liter- 

ary institutions of this country ; and in testimony of such grant, 
may issue and deliver diplomas under the signatures of the 
president and the secretary, and under the seal of the institute ; 
Proviso. 'provided^ that nothing herein contained shall authorize the con- 

ferring of collegiate degrees. 

Sec. 8. The said trustees and their successors shall have 
Trustees may In- power and authority by a major, vote, from time to time, as they 
crease their may dccm expedient, to increase the number of trustees to any 
number to number not exceeding twelve, a majority of whom shall be 
twe ve an residents of the county of Hartford, and also by a similar vote 

vacancies. in''- i"^ti 

to nii any and all vacancies that may occur by death, resigna- 
tion, removal or otherwise, at their discretion: — but after the 
death, resignation, removal for cause from office, or neglect or 
refusal of all the above named trustees to act as such ; the 
number of trustees shall not in any case be less than seven ; and 
if the then existing board of trustees shall neglect or fail to fill 
all the vacancies that may then exist under the number of 
seven, for the period of six months, or if from any cause at any 
time, there shall be an entire vacancy in said board, then the 
governor of the state, for the time being, shall have power, and 
It shall be his duty, by and with the advice and consent of the 
chief judge or justice of the State, to appoint not less than 
seven fit and proper persons to be and become the trustees of 
said institute; and the persons thus appointed shall be the 
trustees of said institute, with all the rights and power apper- 
taining thereto. No trustee shall be removed from his office for 
Trustees — how miscouduct, incompetency or other disqualifying cause, except 
removed and for ]^y the judgment and dccrec of three of the judges of the 
a cause. superior court of the state, for cause shown, whose duty it shall 
be, upon proper application to them, to hear and determine the 
same. 
When Trustees Sec. 9. Whenever funds shall be contributed or secured to 
may organize., the Satisfaction of the treasurer of the state of Connecticut, for 
the use of said institute, to the amount of fifteen thousand 
dollars, the trustees above named, or the survivors of them, and 
their associates and successors, at any time thereafter, may pro- 
ceed to organize and establish said institute, according to the 
provisions of this act ; and may do, execute and perform all 
and singular, acts, matters and things, as they may deem for the 



best interests of the institute, not inconsistent with the pro- 
visions herein contained. 

Sec. 10. This act shall not be subject to alteration, amend- 
ment or repeal, except upon application of two-thirds of the 
trustees. 

Approved, July 8th, 1874. 



RESOLUTIONS AND BY-LAWS 

Established for the Eegulation and Government 
of the Institute. 

Htsolved, That the officers of said Institute shall hereafter be officers— how 
elected by ballot, annually, in the month of January in each ^'e^ted; 
year, and shall, until otherwise ordered, consist of a President, 
Vice President, Treasurer, and such other officers and commit- 
tees as may be deemed necessary and proper to carry into full 
effect the object of said Institute. The President, Treasurer 
and Secretary shall be residents of this State, and it shall require 
a majority of votes of all the Trustees to elect them. 

Resolved, That all the officers and committees appointed as To how office for 
aforesaid shall hold their respective offices for the current year, ""^^ y^^""- 
and until others are chosen and qualified in their respective 
places, and may be removed at any time by a vote of two-thirds How remoTcd. 
of the Trustees ; and all vacancies that shall occur by death, 
resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by said Trustees, and vacancies— how 
said Trustees may appoint such other officers, clerks and em- ^'^®^- 
ployees as they may deem necessary, who shall hold their offices 
at the pleasure of the Trustees. 

Jiesolved, That the following by-laws be, and the same are, 
hereby adopted and established, for the regulation and govern- 
ment of said Institute, until others are substituted therefor, the 
same being at all times subj'ect to alteration, amendment or Aiterationin By- 
repeal, by a vote of two-thirds of the Trustees at a legal meet- i^^'^'s— how 
ing assembled for that purpose. ™*'^^' 



BT-LAVS OF THE LOOMIS IISTITDTE. 

1. ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

The annual meetings of the Trustees of said Institute shall be holden at 
said Windsor, for the choice of officers and the transaction of any other 
business that may properly come before said meeting; and notice of the 
same shall be given to each of the Trustees, by depositing a letter in the 
Post Office in said Windsor, at least ten days before said day of meeting, 
addressed to each of said Trustees, at his place of residence, specifying the 
time, place and object of said meeting. 

Special meetings, except for the appointment or removal of any Trustee 
or Trustees, may be called by the President, whenever he may deem the 



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same necessary and proper, and shall be called whenever a majority of the 
Trustees may request him in writing so to do, and upon his neglect or 
refusal, by said Trustees. 

The special meetings shall be warned in the same manner as the general 
meetings, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Institute to give 
the notices required accordingly, and no meeting shall be competent to the 
transaction of any business until the same shall have been duly warned in 
conformity herewith, and be attended by at least four Trustees competent to 
act. All meetings may be adjourned from time to time as may be deemed 
necessary. 

2. THE PRESIDENT. 

It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all the meetings of the 
Trustees, to exercise a general supervision over all the affairs of the Insti- 
tute, to sign and seal as President all instruments, documents, contracts 
and other obligations authorized by the Trustees, to communicate to and with 
the Trustees, at their meetings or otherwise, all such information, and to rec- 
ommend, from time to time, all such measures as he may deem necessary and 
proper, to secure and promote the best interests of the Institute. 

3. VICE-PRESIDENT. 

It shall be the duty of the Vice-President to attend all meetings of the 
Trustees and to discharge all the duties of the office of President for the 
time being, whenever the President shall be absent or from any cause 
unable to discharge the duties of the office ; and in case of the inability of 
the Vice-President to act, then any other one of the Trustees may act in his 
place. 

4. THE TREASURER. 

It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to give to the. Institute, from time to 
time, as the amount and condition of the funds may require, a good and suffi- 
cient bond, with surety, for the full and faithful discharge of all his duties as 
Treasurer. He shall also receive and immediately deposit and continue on 
deposit in some savings or other bank or banks, or security vault or vaults, in 
the county of Hartford, in good standing, all the moneys, certificates of stocks, 
bonds, mortgages and other personal securities, belonging to said Institute, so 
long as they may remain unappropriated or uninvested by the Trustees, and 
shall keep a full and accurate account of all the receipts and disbursements 
for or on account of said Institute, in a book or books, to be provided by 
him therefor ; and said books shall always be open to the inspection and 
examination of any or all of said Trustees, and he shall, annually, on the 
first Monday of January in each year, make a full and true statement and 
account, under oath, and report the same to the Trustees, of all the said 
receipts and disbursements during the year next preceding the first day of 
said month, and at such other times and to such an extent as may be required 
of him, in writing, by a majority of said Trustees. 

And no moneys shall be withdrawn from the deposits made by the Treas- 
urer exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars in any one year, without 
the order of the Trustees, in writing, expressly authorizing him so to do ; 
and said order shall specify particularly for what purpose said money so 



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drawn shall be used, and the funds thus drawn shall be used for no other 
purpose whatever, and said order shall be recorded by the Treasurer. 

All orders on the funds shall be signed bj jfche Treasurer and counter- 
signed by the Secretary. 

Before any bill, account, or claim against the Institute shall be allowed 
and paid by the Treasurer, exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, the 
same shall be carefully examined, approved, and certified in writing to be 
just and due, by the Finance Committee, and said certificate shall be record- 
ed by the Treasurer on the book of his office. 

5. THE SECRETARY. 

It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a full and true record of all 
the votes, resolutions and proceedings passed and adopted at the meetings of 
the Trustees ; to give the required notices of all annual and special meetings 
of the Trustees, when thereto requested by the President or other authority 
authorized thereto in conformity to the requirements of these By-Laws. It 
shall be his duty to countersign all documents and contracts and other instru- 
ments authorized by the Trustees and signed by the President, and all 
orders of the Treasurer upon the Treasury exceeding in amount the sum of 
five hundred dollars; and he shall affix to all documents and contracts 
required to be signed by the President, the corporate seal of the Institute, 
which said seal he shall keep in his care and possession for that purpose. 

6. THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 

It shall be the duty of this Committee to have a general supervision of 
the financial condition and affiiirs of the Institute; to examine and report 
to the Trustees upon all the proposed investments of its funds; to keep a 
constant and vigilant watchfulness over all the securities and existing invest- 
ments; to carefully audit and adjust all bills, accounts and claims that may 
be presented against said Institute, and upon finding the same to be justly 
due from the Institute, to report' the same to the Treasurer, who, thereupon, 
shall draw his order upon the treasury for the payment of the same. 

Said Committee shall also diligently inquire into the propriety of all the 
proposed purchases, sales, exchanges, alterations and improvements of the 
estate, real and personal, of the Institute, when the value and amount of the 
same, or the cost thereof, may exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, and 
report the same to the Trustees ; and no such purchase, sale, exchange, alter- 
ation or improvement shall be made until the same shall have been approved 
by the Trustees at a meeting legally warned and held for that purpose. 

It shall also be the duty of this Committee to recommend to the Trustees 
all such financial measures and actions as they may deem necessary and 
proper for the welfare of the Institute. 

7. APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES. 

Hereafter no Trustee or Trustees shall be appointed until he or they shall 
have been nominated to said office at a legal meeting of said Trustees, and 
notice of said nomination given to each of the Trustees of said Institute, by 
depositing in the post-office in said Windsor a letter addressed to each of 
said Trustees, at their respective places of residence, within ten days there- 
after, and at least two months before the meeting for making the appoint- 
ment. 



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